Microwave deserves all the best ! From France having such a good stream with only potatoes in salad... That's more than awesome ! Fully understand that you retire at your glory and you will be thanks now & forever !

i used an Elgato EyeTVHD which fed into my quad core i7 iMac. The video on the screen was captured by Camtwist (30fps screen capture program) which was fed into Adobe's Flash Media Live Encoder and sent off to Justin.tv in H.264 format for best compression v quality. It used a TON of bandwidth and made my iMac really hot (i had 2 fans on the back of it to dissipate the heat)

but it worked and was quite reliable.

Before that (when it was SD) i had a firewire cable into my iMac and via VLC you could view whatever was on the cable box, then Camtwist and blah blah